Text Features
Help readers understand non-fiction text and what each part of the text is.
What are text features?
Tells the reader the topic/main idea of the text as a whole. It is typically located in 3 places on/in the book.
What is the title?
Gives information in a visual way. Give 2 examples.
What are photographs, illustrations, diagrams, cutaway, close-up?
Shows important events in the order that they happened.
What is a timeline?
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What are places text features are found?
Divides the text into large sections.
What are headings?
Three ways to change text to make it more noticeable.
What is bold, color, italics, capitalization, underlining, highlighting, enlarging?
(pick any 3)
Shows you exactly what something looks like, taken with a camera.
What is a photograph?
Organizes infomation in the text into smaller chunks.
What are subheadings?
Slanted writing.
What is italics?
Helps readers to know how to say a word.
What is a pronunciation guide?
Located at the beginning of the book, included the title, author and publisher information.
What is the title page?
A drawing that shows or explains how something works with labeled parts.
What is a diagram?
This is done to entry words in the glossary.
What is bolded?
Words found at the top of a dictionary or glossary page that indicate the words that may be found on that page.
What are guide words?
Contains additional information about a topic, often located off to the side of the main body of text.
What is a text box?
Organize large amounts of information in a small space. Information is arranged in rows and columns of data.
What is a table?
Words that are used to identify parts of a diagram.
What are labels?